On 15 May
2009, CLAI and The Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College
jointly hosted
a colloquium examining the unparalleled challenges facing Mexican institutions:
from unremitting drug-related gang violence; to economic distress brought
on
by the global
financial
meltdown;
to a
public
health
epidemic that threatens to wreak havoc with the country’s vital travel
and tourism industry.
How Mexico can cope with these concurrent issues and the
implications for public policy and for regional and hemispheric security
were some of the questions that our expert panel considered.